Besides a starting pavement loop through the Wild West town, the course featured long stretches of fast-but-bumpy grass pastures with some slightly off-camber turns, a steep-but-short run-up, a winding loop in and out of the velodrome onto more grass, and then a treacherous cement staircase with a single switchback. And just about all of it played a part in the race Sunday.Īlthough rain in the days before the race dampened the course, blue skies and pleasant temperatures on race day kept the course from showing any signs of mud. Home of the Alpenrose Velodrome, the dairy-turned-corporate-headquarters also features a Wild West town, a go-kart race track and a world-class baseball field that plays host to the Little League Softball World Series every summer. Photo: Pat Malach/Ī record field of nearly 1,400 racers and their cowbell-clanging families, friends and fans spilled onto the fields of Alpenrose Dairy in southwest Portland Sunday to ring in the start of the 2009 River City Bicycles Cross Crusade series. 2009 Cross Crusade: Ryan Trebon wins the series opener ahead of Kona teammate Barry Wicks.
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